Tag: Beckenham

Villager’s Sausages, Beckenham High Street

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The bare backside of Beckenham High street

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Branded Steakhouse, Beckenham

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Ziggy’s Zizzi, with Aladdin Sane’s stripe in the pavement, Beckenham High Street

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Thornton’s Corner, Beckenham High Street

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A new shop in the High Street

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Harris Academy (formerly: Kelsey Park Sports College; Kelsey Park School for Boys; Kelsey Park Secondary Modern School for Boys; Alexandra School for Boys.)

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At the end of summer 1969 I began my secondary school education on this site.

The School had opened the year before transferring all the teachers and boys from Alexandra Secondary School based in Parish Lane Penge, to the grand location of Elgood Playing Fields in “posh” Beckenham and granted a name to suit.

Given that it has been fifty years since I enrolled here, and the fact that I hadn’t seen any of the buildings in over 45 years as the school is hidden behind houses and accessed by a secured driveway I decided to phone to see if I could enter the grounds to take a photo of the buildings. Here is the result.

Nothing accept the location and long access drive remain of the school I remember, but being there brought back memories of many of the names and faces of the teachers and boys I was schooled by and with.

Mr Lock, Lake, Rolinson, Howes, Duval, Mann, Davies….

The changes at the school should not surprise me – 50 years is a long time – but it I do regret the repeated changes of school name as it does break with the past. Indeed that is probably why the powers that be do it.

“…but how are we going to fit it in the front room?…”

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The last day of the Screen on the Green.